<p>People who don’t care about school and don’t do hw. People who lie to teachers.</p>
<p>^ I’ll piggyback off @ndemazita and several others in this. </p>
<p>I’ll call it “Good-Enough Syndrome”
even the elders in my community (small town, small school, as in ~30 kids per grade) talk with me and shake their head at how there are one or two people in the entire school who try at everything they do and have school spirit, and things of that nature. Yet the rest are the complete opposite. They don’t try in anything and blame others for their misfortunes.</p>
<p>I guess it could go back to the “Participation Medal” culture people talk about, and how I see people in my school that would be perfect fits for the extremes on both side (in other words those who obsess over/stress over the smallest things for no gain, and then those who expect to be handed an A for showing up)</p>
<p>Also:
Phones: I can count on one hand how many kids in my classes DON’T actively use their phone during class on the daily. Heck, some students’ parents even text them in school. My general thoughts: "Yo, [social media site] will still be in existence at 3:31, don’t worry… (phones are against the rules too…)</p>
<p>Disrespect for teachers (or anyone for that matter): the bane of my existence. All I can say is I am glad I was brought up, or somehow inherited the trait for respecting others, despite differences.</p>
<p>Smart shaming. I hear a lot about how smart kids rub it in the others’ faces for good test scores. Being a “minority” at my school, I get “hated on” daily for actively participating in class, getting good grades (that they ask about)</p>
<p>When people ask me how I get good grades and they never take a backpack/books/binder/notebook home from school. If you want to know the secrets of the gurus, follow their lead.</p>
<p>I could go on, but for most of these things, if the cause is hopeless, I normally just shake my head for a moment and carry on with my day like it never happened.</p>
<p>Ha, and to others who said that their school only had a few AP classes. My school has 0.
Off the top of my head, there are probably (maximum) 15 classes to take as a legitimate senior. APs aren’t the be-all, end-all in education. Make the best with what you are offered and make sure your counselor or you stress that in a job application/college application and you (technically) shouldn’t be at a disadvantage. When there are no opportunities? Show that you can make your own opportunities happen, such as interning somewhere, taking classes at a local college on the side/dual credit, self study and be active in organizations. </p>
<p>Sorry for the long rant.</p>
<p>Go off and prosper, fellow students.</p>
<p>Getting a lower grade than somebody. 98 when someone gets 100? time to commit seppuku or something.</p>
<p>btw, the guy who asks everyone for their grades? Right here!</p>
<p>A very abbreviated list:</p>
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<li>The pace of learning is too slow for some kids and too fast for others, and it’s just right for very few to no kids.</li>
<li>The material is often presented in the order on the AP syllabus, which is to say in no real logical order.</li>
<li>School starts too early, even after countless studies showing that teenagers don’t function at 7 am (I had to take AP Stats at 7 am, and many kids come in for tutorials around this time, even though school doesn’t officially start until 7:50.) Some schools IN THE SAME DISTRICT start at 8:30 or later, it’s just my particular school.</li>
<li>Some of my teachers know less than the students (cough AP Macro cough.) One of the kids could literally teach the class (and does on some occasions,) and the teacher literally says to ask him if you have a question rather than asking her.</li>
<li>The administration at my school doesn’t care about the students at all. I had to fight tooth and nail to do All-State orchestra, and the school shut down some clubs that were important ECs for some kids for no reason whatsoever.</li>
<li>Kids who think they’re better than they are. If you’re unhooked with no national ECs and you’re barely in the top 25% of the class you have a minuscule chance at best for Stanford, so stop saying you’re a shoo-in.</li>
<li>This is more a school-specific thing, but people jealous of those with high class rank - at my school, it’s all decided by whether you choose to take the pre-AP/AP level or the regular level of a given course since there is so little freedom in schedule selection. If you chose to take all regular courses don’t whine about how you should be top 10% when the top 10% have been taking several pre-AP/AP courses a year since freshman year and have gotten A’s.</li>
<li>Cheating…there’s one kid who’s top 10% who shouldn’t be, he cheats his way through every test.</li>
<li>Copying the textbook does not equal learning. I understand the flipped classroom idea, but there is a better way to go about it than making kids do handwritten summaries of lengthy textbook chapters and barely going over anything in class.</li>
</ol>
<p>I’m just now beginning to resent this, probably bc I’m a senior; I feel like all of the teachers, and HS in general, are just so childish. The teachers just make terrible jokes and wake around with their noses in the air. I mean, c’mon. You’re just a teacher for crying out loud. I have this one teacher who says he could have gone to Harvard; I have another that does the same daily routine for the whole year: Gets up, refers to himself as “us historians,” and talks for forty-five minutes. I swear, it’s the little things that drive me absolutely insane.</p>
<p>not being able to do what i love…
and it starts to early which takes away the opportunity to exercise in the morning :(</p>
<p>At cutthroat competitive high schools especially, we have come to a point where a 90 GPA is no longer competitive. Really is this what we want? A world where a 90 isn’t good enough? It encourages pettiness and spending too much time and energy on a few points, skills that will never serve anyone in real life.</p>
<p>i feel like the fact kids with learning disabilities (I have ADD) don’t get much help outside of talking to a counselor once a week.</p>
<p>It’s super frustrating when teachers aren’t knowledgeable about the subject they teach. Not one of the teachers in my school’s business department could tell me the basics of options or futures and they know little about equities in general. I sat in on a personal finance class and watched the teacher show his class the stocks he just bought. His reasoning for buying a couple of them was that “he heard good things about these ones” </p>
<p>There’s always that one “god” per grade level…someone who has an insane GPA, is good at pretty much everything, has state/national awards, and is generally worshipped by everyone in the school, regardless of grade level.</p>
<p>Then you realize that you are but a simple mortal. :(</p>
<p>also when your GPA is entirely dependent on the teacher you get. For any given high school honors/AP course, there is the absolute nicest, most caring, will-actually-help-you-learn teacher who won’t destroy your grade in the class. Then there’s the devil teacher who wrecks your whole high school career and doesn’t even care. You lose out on so much sleep and he doesn’t even bat an eye.</p>
<p>then there are the people that brag about their high GPAs when they have gotten all the easy teachers </p>
<p>@Yakisoba ALL OF YOUR STATEMENTS ARE SO TRUE.</p>
<p>“I spent my high school career spit on and shoved to agree so I can watch all my heroes sell a car on tv”</p>
<p>@akacesfan WHAT APES ARE U TAKING CAUSE THE ONE I TOOK WAS HELL ON EARTH. Now that i took the caps lock off let me go into detail this ties into the thread as well I guess. My APES class had an assignment everyday and i mean everyday it was tedious and the work would always pile up. Dont get me started and the confusing and annoying labs. My school is an environmental magnet program though so maybe thats why it was so intense but still.</p>
<p>@topaz1116 that statement is simply not true.</p>
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<p>You all are making me glad I was home schooled so that I didn’t have to put up with the daily circus you all are describing. Think about doing it if any of you ever have kids! (And no, home schooled people are not all uneducated, antisocial bumpkins - far from it. We have brains, virtues, and faults just like everybody else.) </p>
<p>Another thing that drives me absolutely insane is when my teacher (who is new to my school) walks around with his arms crossed and says we have a pop quiz (he does this almost every other day) and has a HUGE grin on his faces reaching either ear. He then walks around all happily and says that he canceled the quiz. He expects everyone one to be like “OHH THANK GOD I NEARLY HAD A HEART ATTACK” but everyone, including myself, just keeps a poker face and just continues with class. This has a BUNCH to do with the whole “High school is so childish” rant i had little ago. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m super goofy and active, but when my could-have-gone-to-Harvard history teacher acts like this, it drives me insane.</p>
<p>“Howdy kids, here’s a PowerPoint I made 5 years ago.” </p>
<p>@albert69 I’m glad I’m not homeschooled actually. I think if I were, I wouldn’t be working my but off just because I don’t have all of that competition around me. As much as I loathe public schools, it teaches you lessons I would never get at MY home. (and my mom would probably mold me into an unsocial bumpkins, knowing her)</p>
<p>As tedious it is, there are simply some subjects, like history and english, that I’d simply just need an actual teacher for. </p>